Paper hat



l. GARDNER April 29, 1952 PAPER HAT 2 SHEETS- SHEET l Filed May 14, 1949 INVENTOR IRVLNG GARDNER April 29, 1952 l. GARDNER 2,594,906

y PAPER HAT Filed may 14, 1949 2 sx-IEETs-SHEET 2 INVENTOR. IRVING GARDNER Patented pr. 29, Y1952 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,594,906 PAPER HAT l Irving Gardner, Hunter, N. Y.

.Application May 14, 1949, Serial No. 93,244

1 Claim. (Cl. 2-195) This invention relates to new and useful improvements in paper hats, and, more particularly, the aim is to provide a novel and valuable paper hat which, while being of the type inclusive of a visor, a rim or head-band, and an elevated skeletally supported top, and with all these elements formed of a single sheet of heavy paper or cardboard, incorporates an improved means for maintaining the hat erected as such incidental to adjusting the length of the headband to agree with the head size of the person who is to wear the hat.

The hat to which the improvement of the present invention is applied is of the kind adapted to be fabricated first as a flat blank, with various portions cut away, and with score lines or the like desirably present to indicate the intended lines of fold; the arrangement being such that when the folds are made the top is elevated above the visor and ventilatedly spaced above the top of the wearers head by a plurality of substantially vertically extending connecting members or post elements, and when the free ends of a pair of side strips, each of these extended rearwardly from the opposite horn-like ends of the visor, arev coupled, the head-band is completed and at the same time a connection is made between the rear of the head-band and the rear of the top. There may be one or two of said connecting members or post elements at the front portion of the hat, but in any event, preferably, there is a single such connecting member at the back of the hat. This last-named connecting member is integrally oiset from the hat top, so that its end remote from the hat top is normally free. v

The improved means aforesaid is resident in special coacting formations, some on the lower ordinarily free end of the last-named connecting member and the others on the free ends of said side strips.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, and to the appended claim in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

In the accompanying drawings forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. 1 is a perspective View of a hat constructed i in accordance with the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan View of the paper blank from which'the hat of Fig. 1 was made, this blank integrally carrying one now favored arrangement of the aforesaid special formations.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary rear view of the hat.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail horizontal View taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 partially illustrates a paper blank like that shown in Fig. 2 except that here the blank integrally carries another now favored arrangement of said special formations.

Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 5, but illustrating a further modiiication.

Fig. 7 is also a View similar to Fig. 5, but illustrating still another modification.

Fig. 8 is a view similar to Fig. 3, but in regard to the blank of Fig. 7.

Referring now to the drawings more in detail.

and first to Figs. 1-4, a blank is shown which when bent along the live fold lines indicated at IG, II, I2, I4 and I5 is transformable into a hat comprising a visor I6, two side strips I1 and I8 for together constituting an adjustable rim or head-band, a forward connecting member or post I9, and a rear connecting member or post 29, these posts for erecting the hat top 2|.

The special formations constituting the improved means for maintaining the hat erected as such incidental to adjusting the length of the head-band to agree with the head size of a person who is to wear the hat, comprise a pair of slits 22, these extending longitudinally of the post 28, and desirably being parallel andof equal length; in combination with a line of selectively individually employable tabs 23 carried by each side strip I1 or I8. Said tabs are triangular, each being established by a single V-cut.

It will be noted, particularly from Figs. 3 and 4, that the arrangement is such that the free ends of both the side strips I'I and I8 may be interlaced through the two slits 22, and then drawn up to give a good snug yet comfortable head-band size, and thereupon two of the tabs 23, one on each of said side strips, may be hookedly engaged with an edge portion of the post 20 in a manner to insure that no shift can occur as betweenthe two side strips or as between either of them and the post 20. As this double hook lock is shown in Fig. 4, a tab 23 of side strip I'I is hookedly engaged with an edge portion of the post 28 at one of the slits 22, while a tab 23 of the side strip I8 is oppositely hookedly engaged with an edge portion of the post 29 which is along one of its sides.

The modifications of Figs. 5 and 6 diiier from the arrangement of Figs. 1-4 only in that in Fig. 5 tabs 23' corresponding to the tabs 23 are present as a consequence of applying to the blank approximately semi-circular cuts, and in Fig. 6

3 the tabs 23" corresponding to the tabs 23 are present as a consequence of applying to the blank approximately U-shaped cuts. In all other respects, the blanks of Figs. 5 and 6 are exactly like the bla-nk of Fig. 2.

Referring to the structure illustrated in Figs. 7 and 8, this differs from the various forms of the invention already described, in that the tabmeans is carried by a post a corresponding to the post 20, while the slit-means for selective coaction with said tab-means are carried by the side strips IIa and I8 corresponding respectively to the side strips I1 and I8. Said slit-means on each of said side strips is shown as consistingv of a double line of spaced end aligned slits 24, arranged in lateral alignment and with their lengths extending longitudinally of said side strips; while said tab-means is shown as comprising a pair of oppositely directed tab projections carried by a lower reduced portion 26 of the post 20a. The provision of said reduced portion 26 may be obviated, as will be understood, either by reducing somewhat the width of the post 20a all along its. lengthv and/ or by suitably lengthening the slitsk 24.

It will be noted, particularly from` Fig.l 8, that the arrangement here is such. that with the' free end portions of the side strips` I'Ia and I8 overlapped to the proper extent to obtain the most comfortable head-band size. appropriatefto registration of a pair of slits 24 of the. side strip I1 with a pair of slits 24 of the side strip I8a, all that is required to lock theparts together is to temporarily fold over the two tab projections 25, then send the reduced end portion 26 of the post 20B through the last-named Pairs of slits, and then respread said tab projections- 25 back into their normal extension in the. plane of the post 29a; with the result that the parts finally become disposed as shown in Fig. 8t

While I have illustrated and describedv the preferred embodiments of my invention,v it is to be understood that I do not limit myself tothe precisev constructions herein disclosed and theY right is reserved to all changes and modifications coming within the scope of the invention as deiined in the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by United States Patent is:

In a paper hat having a top portion for extension across the top of ones head with a dependent connecting member at the rear thereof and a pair of side strips for extension about the sides of ones head to have their free ends overlapped beneath the lower end of the connecting member, means for adjustably connecting the free ends of the side strips and for connecting the lower end of the connecting member to the side strips, comprising a reduced portion depended from the lower end of the connecting member intermediate of the sides of the connecting member, the side strips having vertically spaced pairs of horizontal slits for having said reduced portion laced through desired aligned pairs of said slits to adjust the side pieces to iit a given head size, said reduced portion being of a width corresponding tc the length of said slits holding said reduced portion against lateral shift relative to the side pieces, and tab portions extended laterally from the sides of said reduced portion and extended in juxtaposition with the outer face of the side piece which is held in overlapping relation with the other side piecev for retaining said reduced portion against` being pulled out of said slits, said tab portionsbeing spaced from the bottom of the connecting vmember a distance. equal to the vertical spacing of the slits of each pair of slits.

IRVING GARDNER.

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